Synonyms for ambulance

4Synonyms found for ambulance

Word Origin & History

ambulance 1809, "mobile or field hospital," from Fr. (hôpital) ambulant, lit. "walking (hospital)," from L. ambulans (gen. ambulantis), from ambulare "to walk" (see amble). Not common until meaning transferred from "field hospital" to "vehicle for conveying wounded from field" (1854) during the Crimean War. Ambulance-chaser as a contemptuous term for a type of lawyer dates from 1897.

Example Sentences for ambulance

The damage to his upper lip was so bad they had to be taken to the emergency room by ambulance and he had to have plastic surgery.

On top of that, the app has a built-in emergency button so people in need can easily be located by an ambulance or the police.

Some people even use a rickshaw instead of an ambulance.

Another is an unmanned ambulance to take the wounded off the battlefield.

As soon as an ambulance is dispatched, another is sent from a lower-ranking post to replace it.

Paramedics in an ambulance rushed to the dugout from center field.

By the time he came out of it, he was in an ambulance.

Later in the day they also stopped a suicide-bomber from driving an ambulance full of explosives into anything worthwhile.